World of Away in 365 Days

This week you roll up life as you know it and clear a path for your career break. For some that means packing things up and for others it may mean letting go to make room for something new.

Some packing lists to get you started and suggestions for how to pack your stuff:

This week you make sure folks know what to do when you're not there to do it.

Previous World of Away in 365 Days podcast episodes referenced in this week's podcast:

This week you sort through the tools and gadgets you plan to use for World of Away.

This week we talk with Catherine Morrison, executive coach, consultant, and law professor specializing in conflict management and negotiation who has taught at Johns Hopkins University and Penn State University. Catherine is here today to share with us her insights about how to manage and anticipate conflict and use it to our advantage.

Recommended resource:

This week we talk with Dr. Kerrie Smedley about the reasonable doubt you may have after you've decided to take a career break and how to feel at ease about your commitment to World of Away.

Here are some additional resources Dr. Smedley recommends:

This week you consider how a side hustle might benefit your World of Away.

Resources to help you find what you're looking for:

This week you accept and request a little help from your friends.

Virtual Assistants or On-Demand Task Help:

This week we meet Dr. Terrah Keck-Kester and discuss stress and burnout and explore some ways to relight your fire.

This week we consider how to maintain the mindset you need to reach World of Away.

This week we talk with Ben Reeve, successful retailer who loves his career, but also loves to travel, and created The Sabbatical Guide website to help out others who share this passion. 

This week we talk with Stephanie Perry, founder of Vaycarious.com, and Housesitter School, a masterclass available on YouTube that explains and describes how to become a house sitter. This week we learn how Stephanie saved up for her first sabbatical in 2015, an experience that grew into a new life where she is now a year-round house sitter living a life that she loves and working when she has the time.

This week we answer some frequently asked questions that come my way as people weigh their options for how to design their career break.

Below are some general resources to help you plan a career break

Websites

Do yourself a favor and take some time this week to update your resume or CV while the details are clear in your mind and you have time to examine and describe the projects, skills and responsibilities that you maintain and manage at work. That way if you are invited, or feel inspired, to share your resume during your career break, it's all ready to go!

Comfortable as we are with recording snippets of life for social media, it's hard to predict what parts of that weekly, monthly, or yearly album we really want to remember or use again at some point in the future. The same mystery applies to the experiences you'll collect during your career break. One question for the modern age is how do you strike a balance between recording a special experience and living it? This week you consider what details you want to collect and how you're going to record your experiences in World of Away.

Having the right action plan helps shield and protect your career break from events beyond your control that could interrupt or even cancel World of Away.

Travel Insurance

This week you investigate the financial services you currently rely on to uncover which ones will best serve you while you're in World of Away and which ones won't.

Best banks and credit cards for World of Away

You're officially half way there! And for all of you taking your World of Away or some part of the experience out of your home community and into the larger world, now is the time to start putting your travel arrangements in place.

Travel Guides and Tours

As you ease into the second half of this trek towards your World of Away, you'll be doing more and planning less. We look at strategies to help focus on completing the little jobs that are imporant for your career break, while also working on the big job of finishing thing up within you current career so you can savor World of Away.

This week we explore what type of home best suits your World of Away. The links below can help you in your search.

Homestays: short, medium and long-term

This week we continue our series exploring living arrangements in World of Away and look at how to set things up in a world away from where you are now.

Some resources to help you prepare your household for your departure to World of Away:

Home improvements

It can be hard to predict how your professional peers will react to your career break plans so before you initiate a formal conversation at work, we review some options for how to configure your break within the context of your current career.

Links to sites with guidelines for writing sabbatical proposals:

Energize your desire to go to World of Away into a demand to make the experience happen.

If you want some ideas for designing your World of Away here are some links to companies and organizations that sponsor extended travel and volunteer experiences:

This week you consider how travel will facilitate and contribute to World of Away and you incorporate this final piece into the budget you've been assembling these past few weeks.

Some companies to consider to help schedule and design travel include: 

This week you explore the cost of living in World of Away, building the second part of your budget.

Tools to help you out:

This week you spend time saving money.

Additional resources to help with budgeting